THE STAG CLASSIC
One strip, zero pretensions, and prices that let the whole group come. Maga was built for stag dos.
Maga is the great British stag institution: cheap flights from everywhere, party hotels that expect you, and a strip that requires no planning committee. It's cleaned itself up in recent years — the strip has rules now — but the DNA is intact.
AKA Shagaluf · Spain · Mallorca · Best months: June to September. Early June for stags.
THE NUMBERS
STAG DOS & BACHELOR PARTIES RATINGS
OUR VERDICT
The best-value stag destination going: cheap, easy logistics and a guaranteed laugh. Just don't expect food culture, and video the quad bike.
THE FACTS
BEST FOR
AVOID IF
TYPICAL DAMAGE
£400–£600 per head for a long weekend.
BEST MONTHS
June to September. Early June for stags.
DIRTY DEALS
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Palma (PMI) is served by every UK airport that owns a runway, often for less than the taxi to your own airport. Transfer to Magaluf is 25 minutes — book a group minibus and the weekend starts at arrivals.
Flights get silly-cheap outside school holidays. A May stag can fly for under £50 return if the best man is organised, which he isn't.
Stay on or just off Punta Ballena (the strip) — this is not a destination where you save money on location and taxi in. Party hotels like BH Mallorca are basically the stag do with a bed attached, and crucially, they actually take groups of blokes.
Book somewhere with a pool scene. Half of Maga happens before anyone gets dressed, and the pool party is the easiest big group event of the weekend.
Punta Ballena is 500 metres of bars, clubs and decisions you'll defend at the wedding. Drink deals everywhere; the free-shot promoters are friendly but the free shots are a trap dressed as generosity.
There are actual rules now — no street drinking, and hotels will fine balcony behaviour. The strip survived the cleanup fine. The groom's deposit might not.
Boat parties are the best-value big event and the natural stag centrepiece — book ahead, bring sunscreen, pace yourselves. Nobody paces themselves.
Beyond that: Katmandu Park for the hangover day, quad bikes if the insurance excess doesn't scare the best man, and Palma old town 25 minutes away for the designated culture morning nobody believes will happen.
Cheap flights, cheap beds, cheap pints. The damage comes from clubs (€15–20 entry), late-night food and the collective decision to order fishbowls.
Count your change on the strip, watch the card machine, and if a bar's prices aren't on the menu, they're whatever the bouncer says they are. Walk.
Only as a nostalgia stag with your original crew, in June, for two nights maximum. Any more than that and you'll see yourself in the 19-year-olds and need a long sit down.
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The bachelor party capital of Earth. Bring a budget and a lawyer's phone number.
